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Chicago examiner ' t "^ â€¢ â€” Â»Â«__â€¢ s â€” city life -***^ f j 2 â€” lfevre drama } 1 1 Â«. 3 â€” auton mo**le 1 r sport bâ€”want8 â€” want ad a 4 â€” editorial financial feature real estate i lnfix 7 â€” magazine i i society bâ€”comic*.8 â€” comic edition vol xvii no 15 a m sunday Chicago october 15 1916 sunday price five cents alliesdefy u.s.tostdp seizure of mails france and england insist on right to take neutral ships into ports and to confiscate postal matter reply combats every contention advanced by u s lansing is . silent president to decide future course of action c-wtashington oct 14 tttere vv ply of france and great britain to the american de mands respecting anglo-french in terference with american mails on the high seas and the unlawful diver sion of mail ships into british ports ls an undisguised rejection of all the state department's contentions | the note was made public by the state department to-night the note m effect admits m prin ciple hut denies m practice the im munity cf mail which is recognized m international law great britain and france assert they have the right to inspect american mails while seeking both contraband and enemy correspondence the conflict arising between the belligerent right to search for con traband and the neutral right recog nized by the law of nations m the inviolability of letter mail is the heart of the controversy the reply combats every argument used by the state department m its attempt to maintain for the united states re spect of its rights on the high seas allies defy u s to enforce its rights in virtually admitting the right of the united states great britain declares it cannot be enforced the reply is a challenge to this govern ment as it is generally regarded as being the final word of the british and french governments on the sub the two allied governments claim the right to divert neutral mail ships from their courses and take them into allied ports for the purpose of inspecting censoring or confiscating mail matter this claim the united states has repeatedly denied m the instance of deflection of ships with cargoes as well as of ships with mails it has been denounced as un warranted interference with amer ican rights and as a complete denial of rights guaranteed by both the customs and the laws of nations | the american position is that great britain has no right forcibly to take b neutral vessels into british ports ex cept with the permission of the gov m^rm ernment whose flag the ships fly i great britain and france m their note declare some vessels voluntarily h enter allied ports for examination of their mails skippers of such ships being so directed by their owners calls m ports and at i sea are held same k the note says on this first point and as regards b vessels summoned on the high seas ' and compelled to make for an allied port the allied governments have the honor to advise the government of l the united states that they have ever subjected mails to a different heatment according as they were nd on a neutral vessel on the high h or on neutral vessels compelled hjroceed to an allied port they he a:ways^^ni<u*'ledged that vis crush foes by wall of iron says kaiser berlin oct 14 â€” in an address to his troops during his visit to the eastern fr*.*nt emperor wil liam declared the enemy would crush his head against a wall of iron here is his speech it is for me a duty and an honor to express the most pro found and most cordial thanks on behalf of the fatherland that you along with your austro-hunga rian comrades m arms have held your ground so bravely when you again move against the enemy take with you these two slogans first he shall not get through and second he must be beaten we are fighting for a just cause every one of you knows why you are risking your life but many of the enemy know not why they fight numbers do not impress you and i am convinced that you will show yourselves just as plucky m the futur as m the past plotiom buchanan says woman chicagoan believes impeachment proceedings against district attorney caused attack on him mrs dorothy hunt the woman of mystery in the government's investi gation of charges against congress man frank buchanan of Chicago will leave for new york to-day to testify before the federal grand jury there she was given money cor her railroad fare and other expenses by local representatives of the depart ment of justice yesterday mrs hunt is a tall handsome wom an and is about thirty-five years old she has dark brown hair and blue eyes she wore a blue tailored suit and a large hat of the gainsbor ough type she was asked about the case when she emerged from mr cla baugh's office i have nothing to say she re plied charges that federal authorities in new york are wrongfully attempting to establish a new charge on which to prosecute congressman buchanan were made yesterday by mrs kath ryn doyle proprietor of the winthrop inn 4710 winthrop avenue mrs hunt resided at the inn for several months during 1915 mrs doyle asserted government de tectives came to her recently and threatened her with imprisonment in an effort to force her to testify false ly regarding the relations of mrs hunt and congressman buchanan woman tells of threat congressman buchanan occasion ally called for mrs hunt in an auto mobile but he always waited out side for her he never came in the house said mrs doyle men who showed badges and said they were federal investigators came to me a short while ago and asked if mr buchanan had ever been in the house i told them he had not they tried to persuade me that he had they threatened me with impris onment if i refused to testify he was in the house mrs hunt always conducted her self properly when she lived here and i have every reason to believe she is a good woman buchanan in statement mr buchanan gave out the follow ing statement last night i have not the slightest idea of what district attorney h s mar shall of new york wants with a miss hunt or any other woman the fact that i initiated im peachment proceedings against mr marshall and his charging that the subcommittee of the judiciary committee investigating the im peachment charges with being pro-german and obstructing jus tice in the prosecution of violators of law which resulted in district attorney marshall being held in contem t of the house of con gress and his being arrested by the sergeant at arms of the house furnishes the motive for any ac tion he may attempt federal authorities at new york have refused to say anything about the testimony that mrs hunt will be called upon to give against the Illinois congressman who says he em ployed her at one time as an ad dresser of envelopes at his office at washington but authoritative information was obtained yesterday that mrs hunt ttried to evade the subpoena summon ing her to new york and only con sented to go after being told that she would be arrested and taken against her wishes if she refused healey harding de priest accused others i named by o'brien i ie aids suspended captain testifies state senator spokesman for administration on south side interceded for illegal resort swears chief and his secretary allowed beaux arts to run over his protest tells of offer of slot machine graft the man who spoke for the administration on the south side was named yesterday he is state senator george f harding jr according to police cap tain w p o'brien chief witness at a remarkable hearing before chief a justice olson of the municipal court o'brien was put on the stand by j state's attorney hoyne who is en-fl deavoring to obtain a warrant foifl the arrest of chief of police heale.v on charges of malfeasance m offices and criminal conspiracy coupled with the name of senatoiw harding was that of oscar de priestÃŸ negro alderman of the second wardm and one of mayor thompson's stauchest supporters m the cityh council other names were mentioned in-h eluding that of william luthardth secretary to chief healey and serÃŸ geant william sullivan confident-h ial man on chief healey's staff butl alderman de priest stood out in boldh relief 9 accused of activity m slot machine deal 1 they were accused m sworn 1 statements of working with the chief | m behalf of certain law-violating saloons they were accused of ac tivity m behalf of the syndicate which attempted to put slot ma chines on a working basis m chi cago they were blamed for the jobbing of policemen who inter fered with their plans on october 10 the examiner an nounced that state's attorney hoyne intended to seek the indictment not only of chief healey but of a south side alderman and a south side politician close m politics to mayor thompson captain o'brien suspended com mander of the cottage grove avenue ; district m which senator harding and alderman de priest both live was on the witness stand before judge olson for two and one-half hours yesterday he was still on when court adjourned until mon ; day and he will make still more revelations at that time all assertions backed by letters in crisp short sentences with j never a pause for thought captain a â– o'brien answered the questions asked him by state's atorney hoyn t assistant stat attorney berger andfc judge olson backing his every j \ sertion with reference 1 ; to letters andy written orders from the chicf â€” docu i mentary evidence now m the hands * of the state's attorney â€” captain o'brien literally ripped off the cover j 1 of secrecy that has shieljed the oper j â– ations of politicians and office-hold i 1 ers m the city hall ja his testimony involved m additio *" to chief healey senator hardins^b alderman d priest secretary a\mm i hardt sergeant sullivan city pr l cutor miller and th managers nfefl - a dozen resorts who he cvi-h c operated with be knowledejÃŸ '. even active aid of-.^hiet c 1 captain o'brien foadkj^b charge that chief^b willi pens slater topirie jr a c mclaren who killed dr weintraub is revealed as au thor of demand for money president of st luke's hos pital on list of men re ceiving demands for cas'.i it developed yesterday that arthur mclaren who shot and killed dr j b weintraub in his office on mon day wrote to john t pirie jr of carson pirie scott & co and many other men prominent in Chicago de manding large sums of money among those believed to have been in danger were dr a e halstead president of st luke's hospital and dr wilhelm l baum of 915 north dearborn street both treated mc laren found him insane and recom mended that he be sent to an asylum letter demanded millions in his letter to mr pirie mclaren wrote my main oblect in writing this what may seem amazing letter to you is to ask jou for money it e~"ires almost the last atom of ous energy i possess to do it it is the bare chance that g this may obvinte the neces sity of doing the other which im pels me irresistibly to it i have said it right out so that you won't have any difficulty in understanding what i am getting at truly i want money more money unlimited money i be lieve that i am in a dying condi n and from things which no doe or can cure as well as from ings which they s'ay they can re and are not curing i be ive it will be the breath of life i might say i want a million dol rs yes or 1 ten million dollars r that matter and i know that would be little enough to com nsate for and repair the dam re that has been done to me but do not say that i am going to seal this up and ail it to you if i am doing a rong thing then forgive me i am try if i am not then i am ienists visit m'laren the above facts were revealed ough an investigation by three enists appointed by county judge illy to inquire into the danger that s in permitting known defectives remain at large the alienists visited mclaren in 5 county jail while there they t the prisoner's father who gave m the letter his son had written to this letter had been received at â€¢. pirie's office and returned by his retary to the write's home it is ited that the mclaren family is in ssesion of a trunkful of unmailed ters found in the slayer's room at 5 south hamlin avenue n discussing the matter mr pirie id that there was no reason why any but an insane man should write him such a letter but that it was probably prompted by the fact that mclaren had worked for him while a boy and because mclaren's father was still employed by the firm gay motor party hits pole woman may die a party of motorists smashed against a telephone pole at robey and division streets early this morn ing one young woman was prob ably fatally injured and three other occupants of the car were less seri ously hurt the girl was rushed to st mary's hospital the police were unable to obtain the names of the victims grandmother in-law disrupts his home this is a story of too much grand mother-in-law walter e kelsey 1128 diversey parkway told it to judge thomson yesterday my wife's grandmother never liked me she threatened to disinherit my wife if she didn't leave me my wife left and never returned he was grant ed a divorce mystery in license issued in name of pair wed 6 years former u of i studants visit Chicago as permit using their names is issued no little mystery ls attached to the marriage license issued m Chicago yesterday for eli p gale and fran ces fursman both of marshalltown la a strange mixture of identities or a prank of practical jokers were the solutions advanced at the home of mrs william j wood 1947 sunnyside avenue were two visitors last night they were mr and mrs eli p gale of mar shalltown la mrs gale is a sister of mrs wood mrs wood declared emphatically her sister had been i married six years mrs mary ewing who lives at 37*18 ellis avenue said she is well acquainted with mr and mrs gale i really cannot understand this af fair of a marriage license unless it is a mixup of identities she said they are very charming people a dispatch to marshalltown brought the following reply the only eli p gale known here is head chemist of the western gro cery company he is about thirty five years old mr gale has lived here six years with his wife who was frances fursman of Chicago mrs gale went to Chicago october 4 to visit her sister mrs w j wood mr gale went to Chicago last night both attended a meeting of the christian science association an organization of students headed by mrs mary ewing of Chicago the widow of judge ewing mr and mrs gale are leaders here m the christian science church mrs gale is second reader and mr gale was formerly first reader they have a son john four years old both mr gale and his wife are former students of the university of Illinois where they met they are prominent socially lee admits 8-hour law raises wages cleveland oct 14 â€” the adam son eight-hour law is m reality a law increasing the wages of rail road employes that admission was made to-day by william g lee president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen while under the fire of heckling questions from members of the city club but even if president wilson was wrong m putting it through he pre vented a strike that would have broken up thousands of homes add ed lee family at movies sunday food stolen returning from a movie show last night mr and mrs max tarp ob served a light m the kitchen of their home 1421 melville place mr tarp tiptoed up and looked m the window two men were making themselves at home with the oysters he had bought for the sunday dinner he notified the town hall police when the pa trol arrived the two men were gone so were the oysters brooch president's birthday gift to wife shadow lawn n j oct 14 â€” mrs woodrow wilson will celebrate her birthday to-morrow with a fam ily dinner a platinum brooch set with diamonds will be her birthday gift from the president who slipped out quietly to asbury park to-day to buy it and caused such a stir m the shop that the flustered girl clerk spilled a lot of brooches gasoline blast kills sailor on u s c-boat by international news service washington oct 14 â€” an explo sion of gasoline fumes m an empty tank on the submarine c-5 resulted to-day m the death of wesley mc carthy a gunner's mate the ex plosion occurred m drydpck at cris tobal the damage to the submarine was slight president predicts his own election executive tells 5,000 pennsyl vanians at shadow lawn new * york will go democratic as sails invisible government i the first returns of the poll of t the hearst newspapers and asso <â€¢ dated publications giving the â€¢ views of the voters throughout the nation on the presidential â€¢ election are printed on page 7 â– asbury park n j oct 14 â€” , president wilson addressing 5,000 ( voters assembled as delegations from pennsylvania at shadow lawn this afternoon predicted his own re-elec tion as a certainty he also asserted his reports indicated a democratic victory m new york state he said when so r iinv people ere losing their heads it is worth while that there should be it few who are keep ing theirs and as i travel about this country i get the impression that the great body of the american people are keeping their heads they have reard talk before they have seen the performance of some of the gentlemen who are talking they know how tt assess tkem the ver dict is already m and the judgment { of the court is i-bont to he uttered if you want to know what new york is going to do look up the rec ord of what it did to the new consti tution proposed by certain gentle men mr wilson declared and it did it upon the universal repute of who it was who had proposed that constitution in a direct appeal for progressive votes mr wilson lauded the pur poses of the two national conventions of that party but said the delegates had been deceived and betrayed wants democratic congress he asserted m pennsylvania and new jersey an effort is being made to saddle on the communities men for years m the confidence of politicians who have defied the law of both states in this connection a warning was sounded against the danger of electing a democratic president and a republican congress a president without congress is as absurd and useless as a figure head mr wilson declared he can get you into trouble but he cannot get you out the president said m part i am especially glad to see you because there are some things which perhaps pennsylvanians are more qualified to tell about than any other people m the united states they are better qualified to testify as to the subtle means by which the purposes of the people are sometimes defeated by their government i know how true it is that the people of pennsylvania have desired men to lead them who wou(d lead them to the light and not drag them into the subterranean passages of private influence i want to call your attention to what is happening city hall picketed by police to avert more hoyne raids thirty patrolmen and four detectives put on watch there'll be no more invasions healey promises but records are open to any court thirty picked men from the central police station under command i of sergeant nicholas schwigg aided by four detective sergeants from ! the detective bureau were placed on guard at the city hall last night with imperative orders not to permit any more raiding by state's attorney hoyne's men mr hoyne has made his last attempt to break into this building illegally and carry off records announced chief healey angrily if any court wants any of our records all it needs for their produc tion is a telephone message or an errand boy there need be nothing else for we have nothing to conceal subpoena doesn't authorize raid the police were told a subpoena duces tecum empowers those serving it only to read it to the person against whom it is directed and then to bring him and his papers before the court the men were distributed over the building with orders to guard certain offices the offices and the number of policemen assigned to each were city prosecutors two men health department one man civil service two men comptroller two men _.. smoke inspector one man city attorney one man r city sealer one man corporation counsel one man _ .. . . â€ž___ r boiler inspector one man commissioner of public works city cierk two men one man mayor two men building department one man chief of police two men two patrolmen were stationed inside each of the four entrances to the city hall and the four detective sergeants hosna and ronan dudley and teeling were stationed m the corridor ready to reinforce any quarter which might be threatened more ordered to county building later chief healey heard a rumor that the hoyne forces planned to invade the city hall through the county building which is under the same roof he immediately ordered more policemen out and stationed four to guard each door leading from the county building â€” one on the fifth floor one on the seventh and one on the tenth corporation counsel ettelson said he had taken away some of his records and that it was quite likely several others had followed his example captain percy b coffin president of the civil service commission went to his office for ten minutes but did not say whether he took any papers away but captain coffin predicted an attempt to raid his office yes we expect a raid he admitted we have our scouts out and are daily throwing up breastworks captain morgan collins and lieutenant ben enright wro chose the men for the post said the men would be relieved by a fresh detail this morning and that eight-hour shifts will stand guard over the hall night and day poisoned tongue asserted she burned her children they accused me of burning my i children to death m order to get their insurance thus mrs william s stewart of south elmhurst explained yesterday why she had resigned as secretary of the ladies aid society of the spring road baptist church had given up her class of boys m the sunday school and finally had caused myrtle santay a girl whom she once had sheltered to be placed under a peace bond it was on march 20 that the etetv art children edna albert aged seven and william five were burned to death when their home was destroyed by fire since then mrs stewart declared a poisoned tongue had been circulating the ter rible charges against her gradually her best friends began to shun her she said and finally she no longer could endure even to walk along the streets i investigated and found that the santay girl had told the horrible stories she said then one day the girl shouted at me my lawyer miss jeannete bates told me to get a wit ness then i could swear out a war rant for the girl's arrest mrs wil liam crosby a neighbor was with me the other day when the girl again shouted bad names at me on mrs crosby's corroboroative testimony i obtained the warrant mrs stewart has adopted another child â€” may aged six she declared her greatest fear was that the child may have learned of the santay girl's charges and turn against her wall st betting on hughes slumps to 10-7 by international news service new york oct 14 â€” an appreci able increase m the volume of money to be bet that president wilson will be re-elected caused a further slump m the favoritism of hughes m wall street to-day small bets were made m the financial district at 10 to 7 with the backers of hughes m some instances offering only even money a few days ago hughes was a 2 to 1 favorite edward mcquade the betting com missioner concluded a wager of 700 to 1,000 on wilson while a curb broker placed 1,600 to 2,000 on wilson a prominent stock exchange firm is rf ported to have 100,000 to place golfer travers weds a tennis champion by international news service newburgh n v oct 14 miss dorris tiffany of this city was mar ried to-day m the first presbyterian church after a catholic ceremony by the rev frederick emerson stockwell to jerome dunstan trav ers of new york city the marriage is the result of a golf links romance the bride has held championships m golf and tennis the bridegroom held the national amateur champion ship four tl_i.es last year taking the j national open cham^onship lr knd mrs travers wÂ«l live m new continued on 6th page 2d column tinuefl 2d column a fl b tj s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” show iers with moderate temperature sun day ' monday cloudy and colder moderate south to southwest winds sunday becoming fresh northerly sunday night temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 a m : highest 62 lowest 45 mean 54 normal temperature for the day 54 excess of temperature since january 1 616 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p no none deficiency since january 1 73 inch relative humidity 7 a m 70 2 p m 37 7 p m 41 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.30 7 p m 30.09 sunrise to-daj 6:03 sunset 5 09 coiÃŸudete goren_nn__.t report on pace 6 part vi } war summary | italian front â€” italians ad vance along eight-mile front on third day of big battle second line of austrians attacked western front â€” french claim two successes south of somme desperate battle for ablaincourt continues germans hold part of town allies losses on somme j 1,800,000 says overseas news

Chicago examiner ' t "^ â€¢ â€” Â»Â«__â€¢ s â€” city life -***^ f j 2 â€” lfevre drama } 1 1 Â«. 3 â€” auton mo**le 1 r sport bâ€”want8 â€” want ad a 4 â€” editorial financial feature real estate i lnfix 7 â€” magazine i i society bâ€”comic*.8 â€” comic edition vol xvii no 15 a m sunday Chicago october 15 1916 sunday price five cents alliesdefy u.s.tostdp seizure of mails france and england insist on right to take neutral ships into ports and to confiscate postal matter reply combats every contention advanced by u s lansing is . silent president to decide future course of action c-wtashington oct 14 tttere vv ply of france and great britain to the american de mands respecting anglo-french in terference with american mails on the high seas and the unlawful diver sion of mail ships into british ports ls an undisguised rejection of all the state department's contentions | the note was made public by the state department to-night the note m effect admits m prin ciple hut denies m practice the im munity cf mail which is recognized m international law great britain and france assert they have the right to inspect american mails while seeking both contraband and enemy correspondence the conflict arising between the belligerent right to search for con traband and the neutral right recog nized by the law of nations m the inviolability of letter mail is the heart of the controversy the reply combats every argument used by the state department m its attempt to maintain for the united states re spect of its rights on the high seas allies defy u s to enforce its rights in virtually admitting the right of the united states great britain declares it cannot be enforced the reply is a challenge to this govern ment as it is generally regarded as being the final word of the british and french governments on the sub the two allied governments claim the right to divert neutral mail ships from their courses and take them into allied ports for the purpose of inspecting censoring or confiscating mail matter this claim the united states has repeatedly denied m the instance of deflection of ships with cargoes as well as of ships with mails it has been denounced as un warranted interference with amer ican rights and as a complete denial of rights guaranteed by both the customs and the laws of nations | the american position is that great britain has no right forcibly to take b neutral vessels into british ports ex cept with the permission of the gov m^rm ernment whose flag the ships fly i great britain and france m their note declare some vessels voluntarily h enter allied ports for examination of their mails skippers of such ships being so directed by their owners calls m ports and at i sea are held same k the note says on this first point and as regards b vessels summoned on the high seas ' and compelled to make for an allied port the allied governments have the honor to advise the government of l the united states that they have ever subjected mails to a different heatment according as they were nd on a neutral vessel on the high h or on neutral vessels compelled hjroceed to an allied port they he a:ways^^ni